• Also at 10:00 AM ET, the ISM non-Manufacturing Index for September. The consensus is for index to decrease to 57.7 from 59.0 in August.

From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures: currently S&P futures are down 2 and DOW futures are down 14 (fair value).

Oil prices were down slightly over the last week with WTI futures at .29 per barrel and Brent at .85 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at , and Brent was at – so prices are down about 50% year-over-year (It was a year ago that prices started falling sharply).

Here is a graph from Gasbuddy.com for nationwide gasoline prices. Nationally prices are at .29 per gallon (down about .00 per gallon from a year ago). Calculated Risk